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Gifted and Black in North America
“Anyone or anything that dampens my creative fire has got to go!” Meet Kaitlin Smith. She is a 34 year old Harvard-based scholar and former psychotherapist. She contacted me about her upcoming course for gifted/2e Black adults, called Black Brilliance Circle, (beginning June 2023) designed to help this population “thrive in the face of the…
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Why Care About Gifted Children?
Talking about giftedness is tricky. It can sound like discrimination or elitism. And it is discrimination when kids of color are ignored and excluded from gifted programs in schools, which, sadly, they still are in many places. In my mind, it is a no-brainer to understand that giftedness comes in all races, religions, cultures, and…